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Title: SECOND SNARK - ODD BITS - PARTS 1&2

Reference number: 6079

Date: 1963*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 7.23 mins

Description: A mixture of footage featuring the 'Second Snark'. Research equipment is loaded on board - probably connected with Water Tank Stabiliser Trials, 1964.

[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker.]

Footage of the 'Second Snark' can be found at refs 6074, 6076, 6079, 6317, 6324, 6080 and 9245

Shotlist: [shotlisted from VHS, manual control track]

[no title] [PART 1] [col] shot of man descending ladder, appears to be alongside exts of metal 'wall' (0.14) 'Full Size' '24" Lens' Halman Photographic Equipment logo on paper - title layout card (0.28) shot seen from on deck, 'Second Snark' rolling quite violently in harbour, c/u wash as seen looking over side of boat (1.10) man with equipment (?) on deck of boat (1.18) -blank - (1.22) man goes below deck, interior gvs various testing equipment laid out (2.04) - blank (2.11) Brown Bros & Co. Ltd, Edinburgh present WATER TANK STABILISER TRIALS 1964 'The Second Snark' A twin screw vessel of 50 tons gross, and 76 ft long, used for research work during winter and cruising on the Forth on summer (2.29) [bw, oof] men working (2.51) chart being drawn out and man making notes (3.02) To determine the stabiliser performance the vessel is fitted with gear to produce a controlled roll. This gear consists of an hydraulically operated 2 ton pendulum controlled by a wave simulator (3.36) -blank- (3.47) [PART 2] [col] c/u of men working on the 'Second Snark' at the quay - machinery and metal being winched on board and manhandled into position. gvs deck area, including shot of crane at end of sequence (6.23) men move 'slate tiles' or sqaures of lead (?) from below deck and line them up neatly on deck (7.20) very brief shot looking back at dry dock where boat sits, two men at work on slipway (7.23)